CAMBRIDGE, England & WELLINGTON, New Zealand--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Telensa,
the market leader in connected street lighting and Smart City
applications, today announced that it has been selected by Wellington
City Council to deploy its PLANet intelligent streetlighting system. The
project will start in November 2017 and is due for completion in June
2018.

Telensa PLANet is an end-to-end intelligent street lighting system,
consisting of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a dedicated
wireless network owned by the city, and a central management
application. The system pays for itself in reduced energy and
maintenance costs, improves quality of service through automatic fault
reporting, and uses streetlight poles for supporting hubs for smart city
sensors. With more than one million lights connected, Telensa PLANet is
the world’s most popular connected streetlight system.

“We’re delighted to be working with Wellington City Council to deliver a
more efficient, more resilient streetlighting system that will be
responsive to citizens’ needs for decades to come,” said Will Gibson,
Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Telensa. “And we’re looking
forward to working together on low-cost smart city applications, enabled
by the city’s new lighting network.”

About Telensa

Telensa makes wireless smart city applications, helping cities around
the world save energy, work smarter and deliver more joined-up services
for their citizens. According to Northeast
Group, Telensa PLANet is the world’s most deployed smart streetlight
solution, with a global footprint of more than one million lights.
Building on the compelling business case for its smart streetlighting,
the company provides cities and utilities with an open, low-cost
platform to add multiple sensor applications.

Telensa’s Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) wireless networks simply attach to
light poles. They can provide city or region-wide coverage in a matter
of days, and are designed to run reliably for decades. The company is
working alongside other leading vendors within ETSI
(the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) to develop
standards for LPWA networks.

Telensa solutions are designed and developed in Cambridge UK, with
hardware manufactured with Sony UK Tech in Pencoed, Wales. (www.telensa.com)